Earlier today a House subcommittee killed a bill backed by Governor McAuliffe that would have repealed the Virginia Voter ID law. They also shot down other Democrat election bills that would have expanded early voting and the use of various other forms of ID to vote, such as out of state college ID’s.
A Republican bill to require a copy of an ID when applying for an absentee ballot, and when sending in an absentee ballot, passed the committee.
Earlier McAuliffe addressed the general assembly:
“When it was passed, our photo ID law made it significantly harder for many Virginians to vote, without any evidence that voter fraud is a problem in Virginia,”
Republicans were quick to point out recent voter fraud attempts in Alexandria and Harrisonburg,
“To say there’s no voter fraud is either being willfully ignorant or being naive,” said Del. Mark L. Cole, R-Spotsylvania, who chairs the House Privileges and Elections Committee.
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Remember when they had 1-million provisional ballots ready for just Virginia? The times change, the dems’ mischief does not.
The state makes getting an ID very easy. Anyone who is too stupid to get the proper ID should not be voting.
When were these voter ID laws passed, and did they enjoy bipartisan support?
Within a week after the election, I talked to four people from 2 precincts here in Hampton who said that when they tried to vote , they were told that they had already voted early All of them denied that. Talked to an election official in one of the precincts who told me that in the last couple of hours on election day that had happened a lot. Also told me the early voting had the biggest potential for voter fraud.
Wonder how many people in Hampton alone were told that they already voted when they tried to vote on election day??
Also wonder if other areas had a problem like this on election day ??
Had an election official tell me that here in Hampton, a couple of hundred people with state of New York driver licenses tried to vote claiming that they had registered last summer.
I wonder if anything like that happened in Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Va Beach, Chesapeake, Suffolk, or Williamsburg ??
The Va. Republican wants to ID you at the polls , ok protect the system.
We can’t have illegal immigrants vote out a Republicans job to give it to a Democrat.
BUT the same Republican can’t , won’t and does not care about an illegal immigrants illegally taking a citizens job that voted for them (let me remove the knife from my back).
Go figure , a little self serving one would think .
They darn sure won’t miss that meal at the expense of the taxpayer.
The only thing worse than an illegal immigrant taking a Virginians job is the elected official that allows it to happen or even took a check and a steak dinner for it.
Photo ID laws suppress voting only in so far they stop people from voting multiple times.
Yep.
Most of the world’s countries requires ID to vote. All modern industrial countries except for the US and UK require voter ID.
If the current state officials are too incompetent to handle this, lets get rid of them and hire some officials from 3rd world banana republics. They do not seem to have a problem with it.
Have heard that Virginia is refusing to release Ballot images from the last election.
Is this still true ??